Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Anthony, Christopher and Thulani Davis collaborated on “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” which has its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Friday. By ...

Baritone Will Liverman stars in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at New York's Metropolitan Opera. An opera about Malcolm X will open Friday night at New York's Metropolitan Opera — 37 years after ...

Anthony Davis’s “X” has stretches of incantation that, in person, turn it into something like a sacred rite. By Zachary Woolfe DETROIT — “When a man is lost,” sings Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s wife, ...

The air felt electric at McCaw Hall on Saturday for Seattle Opera’s West Coast premiere of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” Since debuting in 1986, the work had languished but was recently ...

Anthony Davis was still a teenager when he first began thinking about writing an opera. “Initially, I wanted to do Ralph Ellison’s novel ‘Invisible Man’ as an opera. I’d still like to do that someday, ...

Music, as we know, is always slipping away from us, the sounds vanishing almost as soon as they arrive. I’ve often then wondered whether an extra sense of meaning attaches to those few concerts that ...

“I felt not only that it was important, but that I had an obligation to be a part of it,” says composer Terence Blanchard about writing the score for National Geographic’s “Genius: MLK / X,” the eight ...